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Ryo Suzuki is an Assistant Professor at the ATLAS Institute and the Department of Computer Science at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder, where he leads the Programmable Reality Lab. Prior to joining ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder, he served as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Calgary. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder.

His research mission is to enhance human thought and creativity by transforming the entire living environment into a "dynamic space for thought", where people can think through tangible and spatial exploration with real objects in the real world, not with virtual objects on screens. His research has been published in top human-computer interaction and robotics conferences, including CHI, UIST, IROS, and ICRA, earning multiple awards. He has regularly served as a program committee member for CHI and UIST among others. Previously he also worked as a visiting researcher and research intern at Google, Adobe Research, Microsoft Research, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, the University of Tokyo, and Tohoku University.

Projects

• Fluxmarker
• Configure
• Dynablock
• Shapebots
• LiftTiles
• RoomShift
• RealitySketch
• PufferBot

Publications

Ryo Suzuki, Mar Gonzalez-Franco, Misha Sra, David Lindlbauer. 2025. "". In: CHI 2025 Extended Abstract. (Forthcoming.)

Panayu Keelawat, Ryo Suzuki. 2024.ÌýTransforming Procedural Instructions into In-Situ Augmented Reality Guides with InstructAR. In:ÌýAdjunct Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST Adjunct 2024), (Pittsburgh, PA, October 13-16, 2024).

Wanli Qian, Chenfeng Gao, Anup Sathya, Ryo Suzuki, Ken Nakagaki. 2024.Ìý.ÌýIn:ÌýProceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2024), (September 10, 2024).

Aditya Gunturu, Yi Wen, Nandi Zhang, Jarin Thundathil, Rubaiat Habib Kazi, Ryo Suzuki. 2024.Ìý. In:ÌýProceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2024), (August 10, 2024).

Jian Liao, Kevin Van, Zhijie Xia and Ryo Suzuki. 2024. "".ÌýIn:ÌýProceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '24). (Copenhagen, Denmark, July 1-5, 2024).

Rasmus Skovhus Lunding, Mille Skovhus Lunding, Tiare Feuchtner, Marianne Graves Petersen, Kaj Grønbæk and Ryo Suzuki. 2024. "".ÌýIn:ÌýProceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '24). (Boulder, CO, May 11-16, 2024).

Kongpyung (Justin) Moon, Zofia Marciniak, Ryo Suzuki and Andrea Bianchi. 2024. "".ÌýIn:ÌýProceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24). (Honolulu, HI, May 11-16, 2024).

Hye-Young Jo, Ryo Suzuki and Yoonji Kim. 2024. "".ÌýIn:ÌýProceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24). (Honolulu, HI, May 11-16, 2024).

Ryota Gomi, Ryo Suzuki, Kazuki Takashima, Kazuyuki Fujita and Yoshifumi Kitamura. 2024. "".ÌýIn:ÌýProceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24). (Honolulu, HI, March 11-15, 2024).

Suzuki, Ryo & Karim, Adnan & Xia, Tian & Hedayati, Hooman & Marquardt, Nicolai. (2022). Augmented Reality and Robotics: A Survey and Taxonomy for AR-enhanced Human-Robot Interaction and Robotic Interfaces.ÌýÌýInÌýProceedings ofÌýCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’22). (New Orleans, LA—April 30-May 5, 2022).

Hooman Hedayati, RyoÌýSuzuki, Wyatt Rees, Daniel Leithinger, and Daniel Szafir. 2022. . Frontiers in Robotics and AI. vol. 9. DOI=10.3389/frobt.2022.719639Ìý (April 11, 2022).

Ryo Suzuki, Eyal Ofek, Mike Sinclair,ÌýDaniel Leithinger, and Mar Gonzalez-Franco. 2021.Ìý. InÌýThe Adjunct Publication of the 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 131–133. DOI:Ìý(Virtual–Oct.10-14, 2021).

Hooman Hedayati, Ryo Suzuki, Daniel Leithinger, Daniel J. Szafir. 2020. PufferBot: Actuated Expandable Structures for Aerial Robots. In Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2020). DOI: . (Las Vegas, Nevada–Oct.Ìý25-29, 2020) .

Ryo Suzuki, Rubaiat Habib Kazi, Li-Yi Wei, Stephen DiVerdi, Wilmot Li, andÌýDaniel Leithinger. 2020. RealitySketch: Embedding Responsive Graphics and Visualizations in AR through Dynamic Sketching. InÌýProceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '20). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 16 pages. DOI:ÌýÌý(Minneapolis, Minnesota–Oct. 20-23, 2020)Ìý[Honorable Mention Paper Award].

Ryo Suzuki,ÌýHooman Hedayati,ÌýClement Zheng, James Bohn,ÌýDaniel Szafir,ÌýEllen Yi-Luen Do,ÌýMark D Gross, andÌýDaniel Leithinger. 2020. RoomShift: Room-scale Dynamic Haptics for VR with Furniture-moving Swarm Robots. InÌýProceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 396, 11 pages. DOI:ÌýÌý (Honolulu, HawaiiÌý–ÌýApril 25-30, 2020).

Ryo Suzuki, Ryosuke Nakayama, Dan Liu, Yasuaki Kakehi,ÌýMark D. Gross, andÌýDaniel Leithinger. 2020. LiftTiles: Constructive Building Blocks for Prototyping Room-scale Shape-changing Interfaces. InÌýProceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI '20). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Pages 143–151. DOI:ÌýÌý(Sydney, Australia–Feb. 9-12, 2020).Ìý

Ryo Suzuki, Ryosuke Nakayama, Dan Liu, Yasuaki Kakehi,ÌýMark D. Gross, andÌýDaniel Leithinger.Ìý2019.ÌýLiftTiles: Modular and Reconfigurable Room-scale Shape Displays through Retractable Inflatable Actuators.ÌýIn Adjunct Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '19).ÌýACM, New York, NY, USA,Ìý1-3.Ìý DOI:ÌýÌý (New Orleans, Louisiana – Oct. 20-23, 2019).

Ryo Suzuki,ÌýClement Zheng, Yasuaki Kakehi,ÌýTom Yeh,ÌýEllen Yi-Luen Do,ÌýMark D. Gross,ÌýDaniel Leithinger. 2019. ShapeBots: Shape-changing Swarm Robots. In Proceedings of The 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST'19). ÌýÌý(New Orleans, Louisiana—Oct. 20-23, 2019).

Ryosuke Nakayama, Ryo Suzuki, Satoshi Nakamaru, Ryuma Niiyama, Yoshihiro Kawahara, and Yasuaki Kakehi. 2019. MorphIO: Entirely Soft Sensing and Actuation Modules for Programming Shape Changes through Tangible Interaction. InÌýProceedings of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems ConferenceÌý(DIS '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 975-986. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3322276.3322337. [Best Paper Award].

Ryo Suzuki, Junichi Yamaoka,ÌýDaniel Leithinger,ÌýTom Yeh,ÌýMark D. Gross, Yoshihiro Kawahara, Yasuaki Kakehi. 2018.ÌýDynablock: Dynamic 3D Printing for Instant and Reconstructable Shape Formation. InÌýProceedings of The 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST'18).ÌýDOI:ÌýÌý(Berlin, Germany—Oct.Ìý14-17, 2018).

Ryo Suzuki, Koji Yatani, Mark D. Gross, Tom Yeh. 2018.ÌýExplorable Design for 3D Printing Textures. InÌýProceedings of The 26th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics'18).ÌýDOI: https://diglib.eg.org/handle/10.2312/pg20181273 (Hong Kong–Oct. 8-11, 2018).Ìý

Ryo Suzuki,ÌýJun Kato,ÌýMark D. Gross,ÌýTom Yeh.Ìý2018.Ìý.ÌýInÌýProceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsÌý(CHI '18). DOI:ÌýÌý(Montreal, Canada–April 21-26, 2018).

Hyunjoo Oh, Tung D. Ta,ÌýRyo Suzuki,ÌýMark D. Gross, Yoshihiro Kawahara, and Lining Yao. 2018.Ìý. InÌýProceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsÌý(CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 441, 12 pages. DOI:ÌýÌý(Montreal, Canada–April 21-26, 2018).

Ryo Suzuki, Abigale Stangl, Mark D. Gross, andÌýTom Yeh. 2017.Ìý. InÌýProceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and AccessibilityÌý(ASSETS '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 190-199. DOI:ÌýÌý(Baltimore, Maryland–Oct.Ìý20-Nov.Ìý1, 2017).